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Honing, polishing, burnishing and lapping
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Diamond honing sparkles at Precision Products
Rustington-based Precision Products has invested GBP80k in a new single-stroke honing machine from Sunnen Products to achieve both the production volume and stringent QA levels specified.
News from Precision Products ( 6 March 2008)
Modular honing machine series is adaptable
Modular honing machine series is scaleable from a basic model up to an automated, multi-spindle system with robotic part handling, gauging/SPC and tooling flexibility.
News from Sunnen Products Company ( 3 March 2008)
Power honing finishes hardened gears
A power honing machine finishes hardened spur and helical gears using a directly driven honing head and a wide variety of tooling systems.
News from Gleason Corporation (16 October 2007)
Why honing is used widely for gear finishing
Technical background article US gear manufacturing specialist, Fred Young, explains the reasons why the company widely uses honing for gear finishing and compares it with alternative finishing processes.
News from Sunnen Products Company (17 September 2007)
Robotic honing has automatic bore sizing
A vertical CNC honing system designed for automatic precision sizing and finishing of deep bores up to 200mm diameter features robotic part loading offers variety of bore-diameter gaging systems.
News from Sunnen Products Company (22 August 2007)
Tube honing system raises barrel bore quality
User application article Using a tube honing machine, an armanents manufacturer is realising superior accuracy and easy cleaning that result from the excellent bore geometry and surface finish produced.
News from Sunnen Products Company (25 May 2007)
Overviewing the 'fine art' of lapping
Technical background article Lapping is essentially a form of polishing or grinding, writes Paul Kingscott and is used to produce components that are flat to very extreme tolerances, often with highly polished surface finishes,
News from Engis (UK) (10 May 2007)
Precision honing machine is single stroke
A single stroke, compact honing machine, shown at Bi-Mu 2006, achieves micron finishing of blind, semi-blind and through holes and offers flexibility and modularity.
News from Honitech (18 April 2007)
Vertical submicron CNC honing system
Sunnen's SV-1005 series vertical CNC honing system is now available with an integrated air gaging system to provide closed-loop control of tool size, along with downloadable SPC data.
News from Sunnen Products Company ( 8 February 2007)
Honing systems operate automatically
Technical background article Latest high technology honing systems are capable of producing and controlling hole sizes automatically within 0.25 micron and to high Cpk requirements, writes Rich Moellenberg.
News from Sunnen Products Company ( 1 February 2007)
Gun barrels honed to tight tolerances
User application article Honing is earning new respect from barrel makers, says a gunmaker, who related that a firm rough and finish hones hones to within a tolerance of +/-0.000050in on roundness.
News from Sunnen Products Company (23 January 2007)
Determining correct abrasive length in honing
Technical background article In comparing standard honing and 'blind' honing, a short article shows how a machine shop can determine which is the right abrasive length.
News from Kenrie ( 1 September 2006)
Polymer-based lapping produces low roughness
A patent-pending mechanical lapping process that uses a polymer 'breakthrough' solution, produces low roughness while hardening the metal surface using single mechanical process.
News from FriCSo – Friction Control Solutions (19 January 2006)
Single-pass bore finishing cuts tools' cost
User application article Single-pass bore finishing is performed with pre-set barrel-shaped tools that pass once through the bore while the tool, part, or both rotate - tool cost is reduced by over 50%.
News from Engis (UK) (24 October 2005)
Large diamond lapping machine delivered
A large, 3200mm diamond lapping machine has been delivered by Engis, Japan to a japanese customer for surface grinding up to 5m x 2.8m to very close tolerances.
News from Engis (UK) (22 August 2005)
Finishing cell accepts any part for honing
User application article A world-class finishing cell in production at a leading hydraulic manufacturer accepts accepts infinite types of hydraulic valves and mono-blocks for assembly, honing and washing.
News from Precision Engineering ( 7 April 2004)
Retrofittable honing tools improve metal cutting
A range of honing tools that can be retro-fitted to existing honing machines improve metal removal rates, reduce running costs and importantly eliminate the invasive honing squeal.
News from Apperley Honing (29 March 2004)
Compound semiconductor substrate polishing reduced
By using the efficiency of precisely graded micron diamond in specially formulated slurries, a new process reduces costs, eases cleaning and works extremely hard and chemical resisting materials.
News from Engis (UK) ( 3 March 2004)
Centreless finishing machine offers versatility
Offering a high degree of versatility with different feed wheel angle settings, centreless finishing machine is designed for a cylindrical parts including tubes, pipes, pins and shafts.
News from Surtech Surface Technology Products ( 1 March 2004)
Pre-coat filtration improves honing, grinding, EDM
The UK's leading independent contract honing specialist, Apperley Honing, has launched its pre-coat filtration plant to the precision engineering market.
News from Apperley Honing (12 June 2001)
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